τευθίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τευθιάς (teuthiás), τεῦθος (teûthos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the word could be Pre-Greek, in view of the variant and the meaning. Several unconvincing attempts have been made by Pokorny, who compares the word with Sanskrit दोधति (dodhati, “fierce, impetuous, turbulent”) and by Schindler, who assumes an original color term, like in the plant name τεύθριον (teúthrion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /teu̯.tʰís/ → /teɸˈθis/ → /tefˈθis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /teu̯.tʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tewˈtʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /teɸˈθis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tefˈθis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tefˈθis/

Noun

τευθῐ́ς • (teuthís) f (genitive τευθῐ́δος); third declension

1. squid (Loligo vulgaris)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ τευθῐ́ς; τῆς τευθῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τευθῐ́ς hē teuthís	τὼ τευθῐ́δε tṑ teuthíde	αἱ τευθῐ́δες hai teuthídes
Genitive	τῆς τευθῐ́δος tês teuthídos	τοῖν τευθῐ́δοιν toîn teuthídoin	τῶν τευθῐ́δων tôn teuthídōn
Dative	τῇ τευθῐ́δῐ têi teuthídi	τοῖν τευθῐ́δοιν toîn teuthídoin	ταῖς τευθῐ́σῐ / τευθῐ́σῐν taîs teuthísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν τευθῐ́δᾰ tḕn teuthída	τὼ τευθῐ́δε tṑ teuthíde	τᾱ̀ς τευθῐ́δᾰς tā̀s teuthídas
Vocative	τευθῐ́ς teuthís	τευθῐ́δε teuthíde	τευθῐ́δες teuthídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• τευθίδιον (teuthídion)
• τευθιδώδης (teuthidṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Teuthis
• → Old Armenian: թիսիւր (tʻisiwr)

Further reading

• “τευθίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τευθίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN